Innovative leaps in digital technology alongside changing gender roles in society may open a window of opportunity to renegotiate gendered work patterns. The main question addressed in this article is the extent to which digitalisation holds the potential to reorganise gendered work relations, and if so why. First, we elaborate on the interrelation between work and gender in capitalist societies. Our main argument is that digitalisation is shifting the boundaries between paid and unpaid labour with far-reaching repercussions for women and men. Second, we will identify core digitalisation processes capable of overcoming or changing gendered work patterns. These include automation, the platform economy, and the interactive processes by which a value is assigned to work. We discuss these three processes and their implications for gender inequalities by means of examples based on current literature.
In the article, it is argued that in order to rejuvenate critical theory we need to revive the critique of technology first and, by the same token, redefine the very concept of critique in the context of the digital reality, with an account of how digital devices impact our ability to think in general. The function and meaning of critique under new circumstances (conceptualized as technostress) is discussed in a dialogue with three thinkers: Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault, and Bernard Stiegler. It also suggests how Bernard Stiegler’s philosophical critique can be fruitfully these combined with social theory developed by Hartmut Rosa.
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W artykule przedstawiono stanowisko, zgodnie z którym ożywienie teorii krytycznej wymaga ożywienia krytyki techniki oraz przedefiniowania samego pojęcia krytyki w kontekście nowej rzeczywistości cyfrowej, z uwzględnieniem sposobu, w jaki technologie cyfrowe zmieniają naszą zdolność myślenia w ogóle. Zdefiniowano funkcję i sens krytyki w tym nowym kontekście (rozumianym jako technopresja) w dialogu z trzema myślicielami: Immanuelem Kantem, Michelem Foucaultem i Bernardem Stieglerem. Jednocześnie zasygnalizowano pożytek płynący z zestawienia krytyki filozoficznej Bernarda Stieglera z teorią społeczną Hartmuta Rosy.
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